The word “microplastics” appeared for the first time in 2004, coined by Richard Thompson, now a marine biology professor at the University of Plymouth. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Over the past 22 years, microplastics have gained increasing attention from researchers eager to understand their impacts on the environment and the human body. But how much do we actually know about microplastics? Euronews Tech Talks collected this and more questions from the audience and posed them to Heather Leslie,